Quotes About Relationships With Animals

#1. When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

Eileen Myles

#2. It took me a long time to realise how many of our classic books on animals were by gay writers who wrote of their relationships with animals in lieu of human loves of which they could not speak.

Helen Macdonald

#3. It took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me ...

John Geddes

#4. Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

Amit Ray

#5. I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

Jess C. Scott

#6. HOW DO YOU FIND THE RIGHT POSITION
TO LIE DOWN WITH PEOPLE
OR EVEN ANIMALS?
OFTEN ONE OF THE PARTNERS IS
SMOTHERED OR CONTORTED.
WHEN DONE PROPERLY, THOUGH,
EVERYONE IS HAPPY.

Jenny Holzer

#7. The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

Hal Herzog

#8. Besides, nothin's real scary except in books." Atticus

Harper Lee

#9. Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.

Kat Kaelin

#10. One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

Vernon Howard

#11. When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

Martha Stewart

#12. The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

Yann Martel

#13. I spent the day running through the woods like a wild animal. Being chased by you is the only thing that would have made it more romantic.

Amanda Mosher

#14. The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

Kat Kaelin

#15. The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Arundhati Roy

#16. Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

Marc Bekoff

#17. I wish for you four animals: a mink on the shoulders, a Jaguar in the garage, a tiger in the bedroom, and a jackass to pay for it all. To you!

John Oldale

#18. My own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. People are a lot like animals. Most of them are kind, but some are cruel. And the cruel ones are cruel because they were never trained properly. -- Six

J.S. Veter

#20. You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

Ira Levin

#21. What the new science of anthrozoology reveals is that our attitudes, behaviors, and relationships with the animals in our lives- the ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we eat- are, likewise, more complicated than we thought.

Hal Herzog

#22. Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

Matthew Hussey

#23. Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two.

Amanda Mosher

#24. The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't.

Denis Leary

#25. In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats.

Joyce Carol Oates